So That's What Those Ivy Leagues Do With All Their Money

We’ve spent a minute or two on the Princeton campus in the course of our addled educational career, and were always struck by the disparate-ness of the architecture. Sixties brutalism next to burnt-out-and-then-rebuilt classicism next to Venturi’s monorailed Frist–yes, that Frist–Center. Finishing down the list, the Vinoly-designed science building opened last year and Gehry’s science library (funded by, of course, Peter B. Lewis but not involving Mr. Jolie) is under construction. But we always thought there was nothing to really tie the room together.